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JUST IN - Ghislaine Maxwell seeks pardon from Trump after second meeting with DOJ concludes — Fox
BREAKING: Morning hearings in US. v Storm revealed that Dragonfly Capital VC Thomas Schmidt's home was raided and devices seized as part of the Storm investigation, and that both he and Dragonfly's Haseeb Qureshi have been "subjects" of the investigation. That and more:
Fidèle à son engagement historique pour une paix juste et durable au Proche-Orient, j’ai décidé que la France reconnaîtra l’État de Palestine. J’en ferai l’annonce solennelle à l’Assemblée générale des Nations unies, au mois de septembre prochain.…
I am very concerned that the courts, these AUSA's prosecuting crypto crime, and the IRS do not seem to understand the difference between using LIFO to: (1) establish the amount of assets that flowed through a very limited set of KNOWN parties and a very limited set of their…
Q&A: Inner City Press asked the IMF today if El Salvador if just moving Bitcoin around in its wallets, and not buying anymore. Spokesperson's answer here...
While the focus now is rightly on Roman Storm and my coverage for @theragetech, just a reminder that I cover elite financial crime and financial autonomy extensively at my newsletter, Dark Markets. This week I published a roundup of the Storm case, link below.
From "hackers sent 100ETH to Tornado" to "9.7ETH have indirectly reached Tornado" very quickly. If it's really what happened, it's borderline "falsified evidence" territory. 😡 x.com/theragetech/st…
UPDATE in US v. STORM: IRS blockchain tracer Stephan George today testified that he traced 9.7 ETH derived from the defrauding of Hanfeng Lin to Tornado Cash using Chainalysis and TRM Labs tools. Also, prosecutors indulge in some light heckling of @davidzmorris.
Wait. Wait. Wait. Are you seriously telling me that a LIFO heuristic has been used to trace funds on a public blockchain? 😳 x.com/innercitypress…
They've back AUSA: What did you trace next? Agent George: The funds that left Crypto dot com. I used LIFO - last in, first out. Like in a cookie jar. In the transaction, 149,000 units of USDT left Crypto dot com AUSA: Next? George: Address A to Address B 1 - 60K
During the final 10 minutes of the prosecution’s examining SA George, they plan to discuss how the funds stolen from Ms. Lin, the first witness in the case, were put through TC. Will report on this when the trial day ends at 3:45 PM EST.
A major morning in U.S. vs. Storm with @davidzmorris. In a defeat for the defense, IRS tracing expert Stephan George will be allowed to testify to the flow of Hanfeng "Katie" Lin's stolen funds through Tornado Cash, eliminating the possibility her testimony will be struck.
Here for day 8 of the Tornado Cash trial. Will be in and out today due to some other obligations but will share what I can in this thread 🧵
This is the problem when the DOJ decides to get creative with a legal theory on something like 18 USC 1960 - the DOJ shoots an arrow and then paints the target around it, trying to fill in shoddy evidence after the fact. The real tragedy is that the accused is always starting…
This first witness in Roman's trial immediately caught my attention bc the victim was a classic Pig Butchering case. The only issue is....uh.....those scammers don't use Tornado Cash? And they never have? So, like, wtf?
We got access to private communications with the recovery firm that tied Roman Storm to the Government’s first witness, pig-butchering scam victim “Katie” Lin. And oh, boy. Victims paid the service, called Payback, over $90,000 in fees for “fraudulent tracing reports.” The…
🚨EXCLUSIVE: The Rage has obtained records of private communications with Payback, a recovery firm used by Government witness “Katie” Lin, that provided SDNY’s only link to Tornado Cash. Victims paid Payback over $90,000 for “fraudulent tracing reports.” Full story 👇
If I had to guess- -Hacker withdraws $148k from CDC (Only withdrawal of that amount from this time, so assume these are the stolen funds) -Law enforcement sees that they received $49K from a certain address -Later traces that address and sees that it is connected to another…
Update from U.S. v. Storm with @davidzmorris. Roman Storm's defense team has raised the spectre of a mistrial after an FBI tracing expert failed to confirm that the prosecution's first witness' stolen funds had in fact been sent to Tornado Cash.
Here’s what happened inside the courtroom on day 6 of the @TornadoCash trial: